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Modern (Beijing) reading: tiě
Preclassic Old Chinese: ƛhīt
Classic Old Chinese: ƛhīt
Western Han Chinese: ƛhjǝ̄t
Eastern Han Chinese: l̥iǝ̄t
Early Postclassic Chinese: thiēt
Middle Postclassic Chinese: thiēt
Late Postclassic Chinese: thiēt
Middle Chinese: thiet
English meaning : iron
Russian meaning[s]: 1) железо; железный; железистый; хим. железо (Fe), ферро-; 2) крепкий, твердый, непоколебимый; неопровержимый; укрепить; сделать жестким; 3) черный
Comments: Viet. sắt is a colloquial loan (with a rather peculiar initial reflex); standard Sino-Viet. is thiết.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 167
Four-angle index: 6818
Vietnamese reading: sắt
Jianchuan Bai: the6
Dali Bai: the6
Bijiang Bai: ćhi6
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